388 Aster History: MATTHIOLI 
thioli had confused the two, Amatus had said of him, “ Matthiolus 
... duplici errore hallucineretur.” Matthioli answering ascribed 
his apparent error as “ per Typographum.” Other grounds of 
difference were the identification of Artemisia, Matricaria and 
Cotula; and, page 43, of Chrysanthemum, which Amatus had 
deemed to be the Calendula or marigold, the Caltha of Greece 
and Rome, some manuscripts of Dioscorides reading Caltha in 
place of Chrysanthemum. Matthioli observes that if Amatus had 
like Matthioli “varia Dioscoridis exemplaria habuisset ad manus,” 
and especially those “ learnedly restored,” he would have found 
yalxas written, not xd/0a, 
LXXVI. JoacHim CAMERARIUS 
In Germany the heir to Matthioli—by use of his text—and the 
heir to Gesner, by use of his figures, was Joachim Camerarius * the 
younger, author of the celebrated Camerarius’ Kreuterbuch, of 
1590 and many subsequent editions. 
Joachim Camerarius the elder, was a philologist, born in Bam- 
berg, Bavaria, 1500; was educated at Leipsic ; and died there in 
1574; is known as the biographer and editor of Melancthon ; but 
not as a botanist. 
Joachim Camerarius the younger, 1534-1598, the herbalist, 
and the “esteemed physician of Nuremberg,” had usually Feyera- 
bend of Frankfort as his publisher, and demands our present 
thought chiefly in connection with three + works as follows *_ 
1. Camerarius’ “ De plantis Epitome,’ Frankfort, 1586 (ex bibl. 
Columbia), based on Matthioli; contained 4 figures of Asters 
(as interpreted in Schmiedel’s index of plant figures of Gesner 
and Camerariust); one of which was an early figure of Aster 
otany- 
cS 
Besides the elder and younger Joachim Camerarius, there was the Tubingen family * 
century later, of which was the famed Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, 1665-1721, 
died in Tiibingen, Wurtemberg ; physician and botanist, the author, 1694» of ma 
famed ‘‘ De sexu plantarum epistola’’ ; followed by Alexander, Elias and Fiias Rudolf, 
Camerarius, of Tubingen, all of whom published botanical dissertations 1690-1727: 
+ Besides which he was author of ‘* Opuscula...de re rustica,” Nuremberg, 1577? 
53 foll., enlarged 1596 to 239 p.; and of Symdolorum.,.Centuria,” Nuremberg, 159% 
110 foll. with roo elegant wood cuts, and in new editions as late as 1697- 9 
$Schmiedel’s ‘* /ndex Figuraram Conr. Gesneri et Joach. Camerarii,”” ©4 a 
Gesner’s Opera Botanica, Pars 1, Nuremberg, 1751 ; ex /idr. Bu.). 
